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of taliban movements. the approach for this province is to target, in a sense, the civilian populations. not with violence, but when they need intelligence -- you have to visit houses. you have to march out to where they are concentrated, to start knocking on doors, demanding to be let in. they will break the door down. but you knock on the door, trying to be as friendly as possible. you start asking hard questions to the people inside, who has been here, what is in that box over there, show me around. and unlocked the door. >> >> there is someone in there. >> take it easy. >> who is the village elder? [speaking foreign language] >> i will look him up and talk to him about this. >> he was on the patrol -- >> a lot of the places like this are an endless, endless process of searching scores of identical kalats. you knock on the door and go in. a lot of locked boxes. find out what's inside, if they won't tell you. in 99% of cases, nobody will say anything. you can't find any evidence. nato knows it happens. t
of taliban movements. the approach for this province is to target, in a sense, the civilian populations. not with violence, but when they need intelligence -- you have to visit houses. you have to march out to where they are concentrated, to start knocking on doors, demanding to be let in. they will break the door down. but you knock on the door, trying to be as friendly as possible. you start asking hard questions to the people inside, who has been here, what is in that box over there, show me...
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i was forced to agree that i may be a member of taliban and and i was. even really i didn't know at the time what used to be i didn't know a lot i tried anything so. when they asked me what i thought in taliban i said i'm not a number of them and they brought me papers cost me to sign i refused and that they tortured me about they forced me to write me to sign make you sign. electroshocks and. in other times the force member water treatment it's called water water boarding the summit it's. on the water boarding. another time they hang on chains i had chains on my hands and i was hanging on the ceiling they lost pulling me on the ceiling with a chain and you into my feets used to be all over the floor and. after a few days i stopped a pos of course because in that situation i could not eat or drink and it was freezing call it was during winter time and i had no clothes on so i was hanging there for many days when the interrogator came he pulled me back down and he asked me are you going to sign on out every time i said no he just made like this and they'r
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. >> they use mortars first, aiming for taliban dug into the hills. but the incoming fire is very accurate here. >> go. go. go! >> they range cover from heavy machine guns. >> but the bullets are too close. >> that was the scene in an isolated american military outpost in afghanistan's kunar province. troops were assaulted by taliban insurgents hiding in the hills above. our reporter was there and covered the fire. tonight he joins us from another combat outpost in kunar province. so, nick, the obvious question is what is it look? you were there with the servicemen in that outpost. what is it like to come under siege like this day in, day out in afghanistan? >> reporter: well, i think there is a very large barrier. for me, it is sedentary, for the troops themselves, it's a fairly harrowing ordeal to have this constant potential threat of large attack. in the back of their minds, there is always the possibility that it could get overrun. there have been two serious ininstances in which outposts like that surrounded by taliban and they've been attacked
. >> they use mortars first, aiming for taliban dug into the hills. but the incoming fire is very accurate here. >> go. go. go! >> they range cover from heavy machine guns. >> but the bullets are too close. >> that was the scene in an isolated american military outpost in afghanistan's kunar province. troops were assaulted by taliban insurgents hiding in the hills above. our reporter was there and covered the fire. tonight he joins us from another combat outpost in...
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worse it is almost certain that whatever settlement eventually comes in afghanistan it will involve the taliban in some capacity nearly everybody now recognizes this so what is the point of continuing this war the point of continuing this war is because the americans and the british and their allies cannot admit defeat in a second country after what happened in iraq that is why they're there they're there in order to prop up a government that they have no real confidence in they are there in order to save their own faces they are there to protect their interests they're not there to protect the ordinary afghans and we've seen this again this week alison's in germany to stop the war coalition. syria's government has adopted a draft law allowing rival political parties to be created it could and decades of domination by president assad's ruling baath party opposition groups have been banned since the military coup nine hundred sixty three the law is part of reforms promised by president asad to put a man through more than four months of protests against his government over fifteen hundred civilia
worse it is almost certain that whatever settlement eventually comes in afghanistan it will involve the taliban in some capacity nearly everybody now recognizes this so what is the point of continuing this war the point of continuing this war is because the americans and the british and their allies cannot admit defeat in a second country after what happened in iraq that is why they're there they're there in order to prop up a government that they have no real confidence in they are there in...
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the taliban is not an enty that works at a specific address. you have to get these things to a point where you can have a set of reasonable conversations. what we have said, though, quite clearly and the secretary of state said this in her speech earlier this year, that the united states is prepared to work with the afghans to work toward a political settlement and to bring the parties to the table without pre-condition. as the president said in his speech the other day, reconciliation will require the taliban or anyone else who comes to the table, to agree to renounce violence and al qaeda and agree to the constitution. but it is an interactive process if you will, fareed. and i think we have all of the elements of that process underway here. >> are you hopeful that you will see results in the next few months? >> i can't predict that at this point. what i can tell you is that we have put in place the lines of work, the pieces of strategy that we think can bring this war in afghanistan to a close, and bring it to the point where the united stat
the taliban is not an enty that works at a specific address. you have to get these things to a point where you can have a set of reasonable conversations. what we have said, though, quite clearly and the secretary of state said this in her speech earlier this year, that the united states is prepared to work with the afghans to work toward a political settlement and to bring the parties to the table without pre-condition. as the president said in his speech the other day, reconciliation will...
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the kind of hard story the hard fact is that we went there with one mission which was to destroy the taliban and to destroy al qaeda and quite frankly we haven't killed enough of the enemy and their supporters to make any difference we instead tried to build a western democracy in a country that's conservatively islamic and deeply islamic and so we've failed to do that and the situation is going to remain violent and probably. detrimental certainly very detrimental to pakistan as long as we stay there as long as the ally and stays in afghanistan. and. we're covering this hour serious and businesslike that talks between the u.s. and north korean diplomats have been described if as time the countries have sat down together since two thousand and nine the talks that will continue into friday are aimed at restarting the stalled six party negotiations of the north make up for ground tension of the escalating of the korean peninsula that is the sinking of a south korean navy vessel by the north a much. the ousted egyptian president is to be brought to cairo for trial which is he just started a wee
the kind of hard story the hard fact is that we went there with one mission which was to destroy the taliban and to destroy al qaeda and quite frankly we haven't killed enough of the enemy and their supporters to make any difference we instead tried to build a western democracy in a country that's conservatively islamic and deeply islamic and so we've failed to do that and the situation is going to remain violent and probably. detrimental certainly very detrimental to pakistan as long as we...
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remember what the taliban and our al-qaeda want. they want to dominate this region, to destroy what we're fighting for. which is basic freedom. we are in a titanic struggle with unsave sorry characters -- unsavory characters. the outcome does matter to us. if we win and help the people, we're all safer. if the people fight back in the region are overtaken by the forces we'll all pay a price. a lot is at stake. >> i agree, and i just want to add on the fourth of july weekend, we're here because we were attacked from here on 9/11. and if we don't succeed here, and the taliban comes back in to power, we'll be attacked again. and there could be no greater threat to our security and our freedom, freedom that we celebrate on july 4. >> shannon: senator lieberman, senator graham, we thank you so for your time. safe travels to you both. coming up, our sunday panel talks campaign cash and what it means for g.o.p. field. back in a moment. >>> the president says just give me more time. and it could have been worse. it could have been worse for
remember what the taliban and our al-qaeda want. they want to dominate this region, to destroy what we're fighting for. which is basic freedom. we are in a titanic struggle with unsave sorry characters -- unsavory characters. the outcome does matter to us. if we win and help the people, we're all safer. if the people fight back in the region are overtaken by the forces we'll all pay a price. a lot is at stake. >> i agree, and i just want to add on the fourth of july weekend, we're here...
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the kind of hard story the hard fact is that we went there with one mission which was to destroy the taliban and to destroy al qaeda and quite frankly we haven't killed enough of the enemy and their supporters to make any difference we instead tried to build a western democracy in a country that's conservatively islamic and deeply islamic and so we've failed to do that and the situation is going to remain violent and probably. detrimental certainly very detrimental to pakistan as long as we stay there as long as the ally and stays in afghanistan. also headlining this hour the ousted egyptian president is to be moved to cairo trial which is due to start in a week hosni mubarak faces charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him in february mubarak's faltering health that earlier raised concerns about his trial could be perspire or held in the sun a result that he's undergoing treatment in right now but the gyptian officials consider the ex-president is fit to attend court. a double bombing sit in a racket bank where policemen were collecting
the kind of hard story the hard fact is that we went there with one mission which was to destroy the taliban and to destroy al qaeda and quite frankly we haven't killed enough of the enemy and their supporters to make any difference we instead tried to build a western democracy in a country that's conservatively islamic and deeply islamic and so we've failed to do that and the situation is going to remain violent and probably. detrimental certainly very detrimental to pakistan as long as we...
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the kind of hard story the hard fact is that we went there with one mission which was to destroy the taliban and to destroy al qaeda and quite frankly we haven't killed enough of the enemy and their supporters to make any difference we instead tried to build a western democracy in a country that's conservatively islamic and deeply islamic and so we've failed to do that and the situation is going to remain violent and probably. detrimental certainly very detrimental to pakistan as long as we stay there as long as the ally and stays in afghanistan. former cia intelligence officer michael show we talked to. was part of long running efforts to eliminate some of the shows his experience of fighting international terrorism on our website one of the two bolivia's president talks to us tonight all about fighting against being framed. tried charging us with illegal activities with drug smuggling or terrorism for instance to ultimately destroy us that's their plan i believe. why he feels the threat from the u.s. right now this story to come from kremlin posters appear across moscow with president medv
the kind of hard story the hard fact is that we went there with one mission which was to destroy the taliban and to destroy al qaeda and quite frankly we haven't killed enough of the enemy and their supporters to make any difference we instead tried to build a western democracy in a country that's conservatively islamic and deeply islamic and so we've failed to do that and the situation is going to remain violent and probably. detrimental certainly very detrimental to pakistan as long as we...
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change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban and so we've clearly seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore it wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him. from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this national security add their oil industry international affairs spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. twenty years ago in the largest country in the way to certain places of the. us had been. to teach began a journey. where did it take the. low income to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns advanced science into high gear cheap products they don't understand oh jesus got he followed russian evaders to egypt meters and brought it in their big breakthrough back home sunlight on stone on technology update here on. we've got the fut
change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban and so we've clearly seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore it wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him. from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert...
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change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban and so we've clearly seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him . from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this national security add their law institute international affairs squad long will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. nature and discover it. communicate with the wild. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you. download the official antti application to your own phone on pod touch from the shops to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand parties mind rolled costs and already says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com intel analogies available in the snow bill bankole called c m square moto so it's a look at your hotels bangkok sign on the
change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban and so we've clearly seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him . from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert...
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change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban and so we've seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore it wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him. from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this national security out there while in a speech it all international affairs correspondent will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. good players. the bird. wealthy british soil the sun rolls on the spot on the right in front of the. markets why not scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on. the exit of nature and discoveries. communicate with the wild and. test yourself and become free and. see what nature can give you on on. twenty years ago the largest country on the surface of the. sea. one hundred million kilometers each began a jour
change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban and so we've seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore it wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him. from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this...
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change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban as we've seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him . from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this national security at their wall in a speech it all international affairs spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. twenty years ago in the largest country in. the surgical exhibits. must have been able to look at each began a journey. where did it take the. plan. won't go into the. what needs to be splash in the world of heights it just looks like transit vs science into i just cheap products don't understand all the pieces get these old russian leaders to eat your betters abroad in their big breakthrough back home sunlight on stone once acknowledge the updates here on. we've got th
change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban as we've seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him . from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on this...
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because it's not just the taliban it's the region you're talking about pakistan you're talking about iran it's it's the drug mafia it's their war mafia in the region and it's a complicated sophisticated puzzle so mr karzai government and the present the afghan institutions are not capable of taking on this thing that is going on right now all right. thank you very much. always intelligence services says there's no evidence that anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or elsewhere and thirty two year olds who were killing seventy six people last friday claims he was part of why the mission his lawyer greg is insane and didn't know what he was doing because art is lore and reports his immigration message is one that has triggering a chilling rather those are all across europe. ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people to prevent the massacre to which he freely admits was a justified strike against the political left for supporting open borders and multiculturalism and even though the staunchest of hardliners condemned great pics ho
because it's not just the taliban it's the region you're talking about pakistan you're talking about iran it's it's the drug mafia it's their war mafia in the region and it's a complicated sophisticated puzzle so mr karzai government and the present the afghan institutions are not capable of taking on this thing that is going on right now all right. thank you very much. always intelligence services says there's no evidence that anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or...
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first to put an end to the taliban rule to set up an interim administration and hold free elections. these tasks were supposed to be in six or twelve months but this september we'll see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved it's become even worse and even senior officials like general petraeus for example is commanding the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of armed clashes there increases year after year in fact the number of armed clashes over the past ten years has increased more than one hundred times so have the assigned tasks been achieved we see that security in afghanistan has only got worse it's said that drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation in the country so it's a kind of closed circle in this respect will be worthwhile to note a nato operation in helmand province which produces the most opium poppies the operation was called mashed iraq which translated from persian means together. the operation was presented as a brilliant military su
first to put an end to the taliban rule to set up an interim administration and hold free elections. these tasks were supposed to be in six or twelve months but this september we'll see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved it's become even worse and even senior officials like general petraeus for example is commanding the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of armed clashes there increases year...
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change anything political or ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban as we've so clearly seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him . from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on his national security at their wall institute our international affairs spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us. forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. will look cool it makes a big splash in the world of heights or business but transit v. in science you know i just your products just don
change anything political or ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban as we've so clearly seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him . from being in power in some sense says alex this crowd expert on...
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since 2001. >> the taliban buy in small units. they said booby traps and suicide bombings were more effective. a new generation of television militants saw their chance. by 2006, the insurgency was in full force. the international security assistance force, isaf, found it increasingly hard to stabilize the country. american combat troops were deployed in the north for the first time to battle a resurgent taliban. >> was clear is that the whole strategy in all -- in the north has had little success. that means that the german troops there remain in great danger. the more than 130,000 foreign soldiers are stationed in afghanistan. 90,000 of them are from the u.s.. president obama inherited the afghanistan war, but he says progress has been made and that the death of osama bin laden has weakened al qaeda. >> i just want to say a few words -- we are being successful in those emissions. the reason we are in a position to draw down 10,000 troops this year and a total of 33,000 troops by the end of next summer is precisely because of the
since 2001. >> the taliban buy in small units. they said booby traps and suicide bombings were more effective. a new generation of television militants saw their chance. by 2006, the insurgency was in full force. the international security assistance force, isaf, found it increasingly hard to stabilize the country. american combat troops were deployed in the north for the first time to battle a resurgent taliban. >> was clear is that the whole strategy in all -- in the north has had...
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change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban as we've seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because you if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him. from being in power in some sense says alex's kraut expert on his national security out there law institute all international affairs correspondent will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with. twenty years ago the largest country in the. history of the. us how did. it began a journey. where did it take to. welcome back to spotlight than just to remind you there were a guest in the studio today is alex's crown an expert on international security at the royal institute of international affairs who we've been talking about gadhafi and there will be talk a little trepidation and you compared it to two saws milf running with the world and behind the tide back but ma
change anything political the ground as we've so clearly seen in afghanistan with the removal of the taliban as we've seen with the removal of saddam hussein so it's not a policy that works regime change. however i would say that therefore wasn't on the cards to begin with. in that very overt sense but of course it had to be because you if you're thinking of stopping him killing his citizens you obviously have to stop him. from being in power in some sense says alex's kraut expert on his...
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well the taliban have grown in strength the americans are talking to the taliban it is almost certain that whatever settlement eventually comes in afghanistan it will involve the taliban in some capacity nearly everybody now recognizes this so what is the point of continuing this war the point of continuing this war is because the americans and the british and their allies camel admit defeat in the second country all through what happened in iraq but is why they're there they are they in order to prop up a government that they have no real confidence in they all day in order to save their own faces they all they have to protect their interests they're not there to protect the ordinary afghans and we've seen this again this way all right thank you very much for your insight families see a german from the stop the war coalition thank you. now the last serbian fugitive wanted by the u.n. war crimes tribunal has appeared in court got on how to face as a fourteen at charges including crimes against humanity during the balkans war and the nine hundred ninety s. surveyed officials hope his a
well the taliban have grown in strength the americans are talking to the taliban it is almost certain that whatever settlement eventually comes in afghanistan it will involve the taliban in some capacity nearly everybody now recognizes this so what is the point of continuing this war the point of continuing this war is because the americans and the british and their allies camel admit defeat in the second country all through what happened in iraq but is why they're there they are they in order...
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the aftermath of a taliban attack in kabul. this week a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners earlier this year taliban gunmen wearing suicide vest told a guest house used by u.n. staffers. last year another attack on hotels this is your grammar your. examples are strewn through the near decade war familiar aftermath we have any pain down here in the south only now americans heard this declaration before news of the blast we're starting this drawdown from a position of strength about u.s. plans to begin pulling troops out of afghanistan next month but there declan. ations on the ground from afghan activists of military might that's looked a different mark democracy never come by a coalition democracy never come by military invasion democracy never by cluster bomb by white phosphorus by muscle car by bumping our wedding parties and didn't washington talk of winding down war in one country does not wind down talk of tackling the global terrorist threat as the focus seems to shift to neighbors should be refocusing resources on pak
the aftermath of a taliban attack in kabul. this week a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners earlier this year taliban gunmen wearing suicide vest told a guest house used by u.n. staffers. last year another attack on hotels this is your grammar your. examples are strewn through the near decade war familiar aftermath we have any pain down here in the south only now americans heard this declaration before news of the blast we're starting this drawdown from a position of strength about u.s. plans...
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officials statements because today we have an attack by the taliban the u.n. put out numbers saying that violence and afghan casualties have increased in the first six months of this year to two very high levels to i think record highs there increased sharply and then this kind of seems to contradict what u.s. officials have said you have betray us before he went out saying that you know violence is on the decline and you had obama saying the taliban is broken is a situation getting better or worse there i think the problem in interestingly enough europe or or truce. we call these gains that we've seen in the past year or so alleged gains fragile and reversible and as we've seen over the past several months there's been a slow chipping away of the fragile and reversible security of the u.s. and coalition forces have tried to bring about especially in the southern and eastern provinces i think a lot of the this sort of targeted assassinations that we've seen over the past couple months are that some of all the cars were the head of the kandahar police chief and
officials statements because today we have an attack by the taliban the u.n. put out numbers saying that violence and afghan casualties have increased in the first six months of this year to two very high levels to i think record highs there increased sharply and then this kind of seems to contradict what u.s. officials have said you have betray us before he went out saying that you know violence is on the decline and you had obama saying the taliban is broken is a situation getting better or...
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like you live from moscow now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world to the taliban has claimed responsibility for killing the mayor of ghana stands kind of our city. a suicide bomb attack it's the latest in a string of assassinations targeting talk afghan officials two weeks ago president hamid karzai as have brother randy entire province was gunned down while a car dies top aides was also killed by the taliban who are stepping up their assault as their combat troops begin to goes wrong get a stamp. egypt's official news agency says former president hosni mubarak is weak and refusing solid food hospital officials say he is suffering depression and weight loss caused by not eating enough to sustain his health well barak is supposed to stand trial in a week used of ordering the killing of protesters and corruption over eight hundred forty people died during the partner uprising which forced the box office in february. the v.a. has awarded a u.n. envoy that no peace talks will be considered until nato stops airstrikes a government spokesman also insisted that market ob
like you live from moscow now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world to the taliban has claimed responsibility for killing the mayor of ghana stands kind of our city. a suicide bomb attack it's the latest in a string of assassinations targeting talk afghan officials two weeks ago president hamid karzai as have brother randy entire province was gunned down while a car dies top aides was also killed by the taliban who are stepping up their assault as their combat troops...
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troops in afghanistan when the taliban attack. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. a special gathering to tackle america's serious economic problems. key figures from government, business and academia came together this week in chicago for the clinton global might be difference america conference. the event was the brainchild of former president bill clinton. i sat down with him in chicago for a candid interview on the country's debt crisis, the 2012 presidential race, and much more. >> mr. president, thanks very much for joining us. good to be here. first time you've done this as far as the u.s. economy is concerned. normally it's global issues. and i want to get to that, but let's talk about some of the big issues right now. jobs, jobs, jobs. it's a crisis, a game of chicken going on in washington right now between the president, the did democrats on one side, republican leadership on the other side. how big of a deal is this august 2nd deadlin
troops in afghanistan when the taliban attack. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. a special gathering to tackle america's serious economic problems. key figures from government, business and academia came together this week in chicago for the clinton global might be difference america conference. the event was the brainchild of former president bill clinton. i sat down with him in chicago for a candid...
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there is an incentive on the taliban to a join a political process because taliban mid level and high level leaders are being killed in ever larger numbers and what you see now is in some sense lowering morales of the taliban within afghanistan because they're brave mid-level and high level leaders are cowering over the border in pakistan. that is what has happened and we keep that pressure. of course we need to work with the afghan citizens of long-term capability that the afghans can go on dealing with an insurgency if it is still continuing even in a minor way into the future along the lines he suggested. the taliban are under huge pressure because of the surge and the effectiveness of operations in which we are engaged. >> frank white. >> in afghanistan, we will not drawdown on the people who get diplomatic -- in the country. >> it is hugely important we secure those who work in our embassy. are had the fortune of meeting many people in the kabul embassy, one of the biggest embassies in the world. they have to make huge compromises to work out in such a difficult location and secu
there is an incentive on the taliban to a join a political process because taliban mid level and high level leaders are being killed in ever larger numbers and what you see now is in some sense lowering morales of the taliban within afghanistan because they're brave mid-level and high level leaders are cowering over the border in pakistan. that is what has happened and we keep that pressure. of course we need to work with the afghan citizens of long-term capability that the afghans can go on...
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it was followed by the government was overthrown by the initial stage of the war the taliban has now come back and are very very strong so in a while the whole question about whether you can kill eighty insurgents or anything else you have to ask why are the insurgents who are really why are they there in the first place the whole strategy of handing the country over to the afghan army and police is clearly flailing and failing badly so there has to be an honest assessment of what is happening in this war and the honest assessment of what is happening in this war is that fall from a pending terrorism fall from a democracy in the right to pakistan by their own more and more drone attacks it is a war which has not brought democracy afghanistan is one the most corrupt countries in the world and the truth is the nato presence and nato forces are not part of the solution they're both speaking about that a transfer of control there from nato troops to local troops in afghanistan is still far from stable as the troops withdraw so how likely do you think it is to enjoy a return to taliban co
it was followed by the government was overthrown by the initial stage of the war the taliban has now come back and are very very strong so in a while the whole question about whether you can kill eighty insurgents or anything else you have to ask why are the insurgents who are really why are they there in the first place the whole strategy of handing the country over to the afghan army and police is clearly flailing and failing badly so there has to be an honest assessment of what is happening...
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we've seen these drone strikes have been fury of the people pakistan we've quadrupled the pakistani taliban in numbers and violent attacks they've moved them east into the border you have the hardware into the point where we now oppose a major threat to the pakistani government only into the pakistani military so much that there's now talk of really an tell us military coup on the front page of the new york times and most importantly we're going to be seen by syria and better solution would be. in the wiki leaks cable. we're so the u.s. is so hated now in pakistan that the government is afraid to corporate with it and safeguarding the mirror tiriel those which are the world's fastest growing and by all experts will tell you the least secure so the result of this drone strike campaign. is variously preceded danger in the united states the conventional and or nuclear terrorist. attack and out of other in sas the headlines in our wild date the us president barack obama has welcomed a bipartisan senate proposal designed to complet countries washington's debt plan aims to decrease the deficit by
we've seen these drone strikes have been fury of the people pakistan we've quadrupled the pakistani taliban in numbers and violent attacks they've moved them east into the border you have the hardware into the point where we now oppose a major threat to the pakistani government only into the pakistani military so much that there's now talk of really an tell us military coup on the front page of the new york times and most importantly we're going to be seen by syria and better solution would be....